nickonline

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by nickonline 13y ago
No one is deluded into thinking Mozilla is a political charity. They most certainly are a technology company and everyone knows that, so are the companies behind Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari. As far as I know none of the CEO's
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I understand your gripe you just made with the word "just" and I'm not the OP. I had a friend excitedly text me about this today so I looked it up. On the device's page [1] there is a 'compare to xyz' box they
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Wow, you're absolutely correct. I always assumed that in the US it was because of the litigious nature and never stopped to consider the fact that if your kid breaks their arm it's $10k for the parents to fix it. Thinking about it
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Like... say, Tokyo?
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What's FMR? "Housing wage for two bedroom FMR" Also what does this all mean? What percentage of their income is this representing to afford this house? The article was surprisingly short of this information even though it was
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But you could argue that Law school is only competitive because the real world salaries are. In the same vein if you raised the salaries at certain large faculties the technology degrees may end up competitive as well.
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This is the core problem, who gets to allocate the visas? If we assume only YC & some of the other incubators it starts to drive more traffic to them and raises the barrier to entry for a new incubator as they probably won't be on
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All completely valid, to add to this, paying the correct supply/demand wage would result in ridiculously high salaries, this would then attract more graduates to study engineering, which in turn results in more engineers, which results
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- If you're about to get on a plane and you use Gmail it will let you know when you need to leave where you are, also will tell you if the plane is late - Daily weather updates - It's picked up the stocks I have from my google sea
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Hence "offer more money" If you make $80k/year in a stable job, but a company could be reasonably expected you'll crash and burn in 6 months maybe that company will have to offer $120k to account for the 3 months the dev
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I don't switch off either, one of my former housemates has a photo he thinks is amazing of me playing 2 computer games while watching a movie and texting. But I've recently signed on with a company with around ~6.5 weeks leave a
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Not just a jumbo either, 30-40 at a single airport at one time with ~100people per plane (~4,000 total) vs 9 people on a single Cessna likely 2-3 times a day maximum
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And even if asked "how would you fix the problem" Answering with "Put a fan right there to blow all the empty boxes off the line" would be seen as taking the piss and laughed off with comments like "You're miss
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This depends on where you are. A lot of "regulation" appears to me to be monopolistic pricing because there were no other choices. I'm in Australia so the below is my experience. Moving to Uber as I have means I don't ha
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> it was beyond reach of Joe User. I would argue that this is not bricking, if it's beyond joe user that's just a job for experts. Bricking to me is totally gone with no hope of recovery.
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I think you're looking at this wrong. The kid is an example for why the budget gets tight, it could be anything (buying a house, deciding to pay off your credit card), you're correct the company has no obligation. Hence why you&#x